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Companies generally already do this with non-FISA "National Security Letter Requests" - Apple received between 1 and 499 between January and June 2021[0], and G
by judge2020 4y ago
Companies generally already do this with non-FISA "National Security Letter Requests" - Apple received between 1 and 499 between January and June 2021[0], and Google received between 500 – 999 in the same time frame[1].
Of course, this is nothing like allowing arbitrary content censorship in collaboration with law enforcement, which would indeed trigger a lot more outrage and bad PR.
0: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
1: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-security?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...
- phantom_of_cato 4y agoNot really. National Security Letters [1] are for requesting data, not censorship. And of course, they are also controversial. Many of us consider the PATRIOT act a disaster. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter